Numbers Chapter 10 verse 5 Holy Bible

ASV Numbers 10:5

And when ye blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall take their journey.
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BBE Numbers 10:5

When a loud note is sounded, the tents placed on the east side are to go forward.
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DARBY Numbers 10:5

And when ye blow an alarm, the camps that lie eastward shall set forward.
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KJV Numbers 10:5

When ye blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the east parts shall go forward.
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WBT Numbers 10:5

When ye blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the east parts shall go forward.
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WEB Numbers 10:5

When you blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall take their journey.
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YLT Numbers 10:5

`And ye have blown -- a shout, and the camps which are encamping eastward have journeyed.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 5. - When ye blow an alarm. Hebrew, תְּרוּעָה. This seems to signify a continuous peal, easily distinguished, wherever audible, from the blowing in short, sharp tones (Hebrew, תָּקַע) mentioned below, verse 7. The peal of alarm was to be blown - לְמַסְּעֵיהֶם - "for their breaking up" - for that purpose, and no other. The camps. Only those on the east (Judah, with Issachar and Zebulun) and on the south (Reuben, with Simeon and Gad) are here mentioned. It may be that the silver trumpets themselves were carried with the sacred utensils after the southern camps, and that some other means were employed to start the remaining tribes; or it may be that the omission is due to some accidental circumstance. The Septuagint inserts in verse 6, "And ye shall sound a third alarm, and the camps which are pitched westwards shall move; and ye shall sound a fourth alarm, and the camps which are pitched northwards shall move." No doubt this was the actual order of starting, however the signal was given.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(5) When ye blow an alarm.--The word teruah, alarm, is supposed to denote a loud and continuous blast, by which the signal for the moving of the camps was distinguished from those which were used for the summoning of the congregation, or of the princes (Numbers 10:7). In the former of these cases some suppose that both trumpets were blown, and in the latter only one (Numbers 10:4 and Note. Comp. Light-foot's Temple Service, Numbers 7:5; Numbers 7:2.) The fuller directions respecting the order in which the camps were to break up are given in Numbers 2. Here the order of the eastern and southern camps only is prescribed. In the LXX., however, we read thus: "And ye shall sound a third alarm, and the camps pitched by the sea (i.e., westward), shall move forward; and ye shall sound a fourth alarm, and they that encamp toward the north shall move forward; they shall sound an alarm at their departure."